The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-12-13
People in Print.

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Aiming the heaviest taxpayers OF
New York are John Jacob Astor,
1886, O40; William Astor, $4,000;
estate OF w. Ii. Vanderbilt, S171,-
1874; estate OF Robert Goelet, $107,.
800.
Mrs. Eliza j. Nicholson is not only
the proprietor, but managing editor
Of the New Orleans Picayune, and she
has been so successful that she has
seen debt OF $500 lifted and the
prosperity of the paper increasing
rom year to year.
The richest man in Vermont is Col
onel Estey OF Battleboro. Heis worth
at the present moment $500, 900,
all made in trade. He never specu-
lated dollar in any OF the pet stocks
or bonds.
Reno Gazette: John Mackay is re.
ported to have told some friends in
Virginia City that he did not seek
Fair for assistance, but the offer came
voluntarily from Fair. Mackay tells
it in this way: ~ met him coming
along the street and he says: John,
think you are distressed, and il you
are, I've got five million you can have
Il you like, and let by-gones CO. / &C.
cepted the offer. and Jim would have
to kick me all over the bank before !
could be made to think he vast q
pretty good fellow"
When Gen. Buckner, now governor
Of Kentucky, made his last sortie
from Fort Donelson. he was met and
repulsed by Col. Thayer, commanding
the LIST Nebraska regiment. The two
commanding officers never met again
until they grasped each others hands
at the recent Philadelphia centennial,
Gen. Buckner as governor OF Kentucky
and Ger. Thayer as governor OF Ne
braska.
General Charles J. Paine, who has
done so much to keep the American
cup on this side OF the Atlantic, is 54
years OF age, though he does not look
his years by at least decade. His
figure is tall and spare and there is
nothing nautical in his appearance.
There are scarcely any gray hairs in
his partially bald head, and his mus.
tache has not yet begun to change
color. General Paine was graduated
from Harvard In the class oil SO. He
has splendid war record. He is, in
fact, centre-board man in every
way.
Lyman Trumbull, the famous ex-
senator, is living quietly at Oakland,
Ill.,, taking care OF his garden and his
law practice. His brother and his
sons live near him. He does not look
much older than he did fifteen years
ago, when Mast so often 8 etched his
strong and intellectual face His law
practice ia enormous, and is said to
be worth $50, 900 year. There are
not hall dozen lawyers in the West
who can command fees as large as Ly.
man Trnmbull's.
General Paine, OF Puritan ayfow
er-Volunteer fame, is q near connec-
tion OF DR.. o. w. Holmes. The witty
Doctor observed in his letter to the
reception committee In Boston:
Proud as am OF their achievement,
l own that the General is the only
commander / ever heard OF who
made himself illustrous by running
away from all his opponents"
The death OF William r. Sever OF
Plymouth recalls the fact that he was
one OF three persons whose lives COW
erd the whole period OF New England
history. The first OF the trio is Pere-
CRIME White, born of Cape Cod, No
vember, 1920 10. 81 and who died,
aged 81, when the second person,
grandfather Cobb" was 10 years
old. Mr.. Cobb witnessed Peregrine
Whites funeral, and himself lived to
be 107 years OF age, dying when Will
lam r. Sever was 10 yeas old. Az
Mr., Sever was wont to express it, he
had shaken hands with a man who
had shaken hands with Peregrine
White" These three lives cover
period OF 2s7 years.